Economics Of Grids, Clouds, Systems, And Services: 12th International Conference, Gecon 2015, Cluj-napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2015, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in September 2015. The 11 revised full papers and 10 paper-in-progress presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The presentation sessions that have been set up are: resource allocation, service selection in clouds, energy conservation and smart grids, applications: tools and protocols, community networks and legal and socio-economic aspects. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Optimizing Multi-tenant Cloud Resource Pools via Allocation of Reusable Time Slots....Pages 3-17 Dynamic Scheduling in Real Time with Budget Constraints in Hybrid Clouds....Pages 18-31 Cost-Aware VM Placement Across Distributed DCs Using Bayesian Networks....Pages 32-48 Cost-Efficient CPU Provisioning for Scientific Workflows on Clouds....Pages 49-64 Cost Estimation for the Provisioning of Computing Resources to Execute Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Amazon Cloud....Pages 65-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Service Quality Assurance in Multi-clouds....Pages 81-97 Employing Relevance Feedback to Embed Content and Service Importance into the Selection Process of Composite Cloud Services....Pages 98-114 The Open Service Compendium....Pages 115-129 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 Optimizing Data Centres Operation to Provide Ancillary Services On-Demand....Pages 133-146 A Specification Language for Performance and Economical Analysis of Short Term Data Intensive Energy Management Services....Pages 147-163 Utility-Based Smartphone Energy Consumption Optimization for Cloud-Based and On-Device Application Uses....Pages 164-175 Optimizing the Data Center Energy Consumption Using a Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Approach....Pages 176-189 Towards an Energy-Aware Cloud Architecture for Smart Grids....Pages 190-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Diameter of Things (DoT): A Protocol for Real-Time Telemetry of IoT Applications....Pages 207-222 Automatic Performance Space Exploration of Web Applications....Pages 223-235 E-Fast & CloudPower: Towards High Performance Technical Analysis for Small Investors....Pages 236-248 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Towards Incentive-Compatible Pricing for Bandwidth Reservation in Community Network Clouds....Pages 251-264 On the Sustainability of Community Clouds in guifi.net....Pages 265-278 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Cloud Providers Viability: How to Address it from an IT and Legal Perspective?....Pages 281-295 Evolution of the Global Knowledge Network: Network Analysis of Information and Communication Technologies’ Patents....Pages 296-307 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 A Revised Model of the Cloud Computing Ecosystem....Pages 308-321 Back Matter....Pages 323-323 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2013, held in Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2013. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: business models, energy consumption, resource allocation, work in progress on resource allocation, work in progress on pricing, quality of service, work in progress on utility and ROI modeling.